isdals (version 1.0-6)

thumbtack: Throwing thumbtacks

Description

A brass thumbtack was thrown 100 times and it was registered whether the pin was pointing up or down towards the table upon landing.

Usage

data(thumbtack)

format

The format is: int [1:100] 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 ...

Details

1 corresponds to "tip pointing down" and 0 corresponds to "tip pointing up"

References

Mats Rudemo (1979). Statistik og sandsynlighedslaere med biologiske anvendelser. Del 1: Grundbegreber.

Examples

data(thumbtack)
mean(thumbtack)